Alison Krauss
Alison Krauss
Alison Maria Kraussis an American bluegrass-country singer and musician. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in 1987. She was invited to join the band with which she still performs, Alison Krauss and Union Station, and later released her first album with them as a group in 1989...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth23 July 1971
CityChampaign, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Lonely Runs Both Ways. It's amazing to win for (Country) Album of the Year because we kind of just make albums for ourselves.
You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.'
You have no idea what this means! Thanks, folks.
I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it.
There are so many great songs yet to sing.
Some things feel really good to sing: there's a physical aspect, but there's more to it - a deeper place you go to.
Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.
Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.
I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.
I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.
I love being in the world of the unknown.
When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a performer, all of that stuff can finally start to become what it's supposed to be. Like a settling into yourself. It's not even a musical thing, it's a whole mindset, a whole acceptance of who you were supposed to be. Life sounds good
I don't know if bliss is possible and I've always thought that my best times will be later in life.
I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.